User blog comment:Dante-Must-Die-Mode/What The Heaven And Hell?: Vergil's Chronological Order/@comment-967403-20150630203446

According to the DMC4:SE official website, he visits Fortuna "many years" before Dante. No one knows the exact timeframe cause specifics are just about never actually given by Capcom 9/10 times. We do know it takes place before DMC3.

Is there enough hints to where we can finally say Nero is Vergil's son because the DMC4:SE references a couple things to the novel itself. Vergil visiting Fortuna was discussed in the novel. His reasons alligned with the novel's implications. And Sanctus is the one who believes he's so in the novel we're trying to say it is non-canon so hard but yet this comes out and references it several times, making it canon (just like how the DMC3 manga was canon and referenced in DMC3).

Just really, It's about time fans swallow the pill. And perhaps gets more context. A writer can leave and go back to companies anytime. Just look at the writers of comic books, movies, and other video games. They can leave the company and them leaving the company doesn't stop their matieral from being canon in a given continuity. Bingo leaving =/= his "poor" version of DMC4. If he says it's the complete version (He the wrtier of DMC3 mind you, with the Vergil people really loved) and Capcom has it's stamp on their official website in japanese, then it's good. And the entire notion of Vergil sleeping with a prostitute is FALSE as far as we know. The people of Fortuna ASSUMED Nero's mother was a prostitute.

Finally, the timeline argument is silly because this is the same series in which the first 2 games follow Kamiya's establishment and then Bingo changed up the timeline, rectoning anything but the first 2 games. The timeline is a confusing mess. When you recton events but try to keep some, plotholes and confuson is going to be there. And Capcom doesn't care enough to go and fix it. Heck, their interviews are contridictory. DMC4 Dante is in his late thirties yet according to another interview, Lady is ABOUT ten years older. It's confusing. There's no exacts. Kamiya even says he wrote his Dante to be SIMILAR of age to Cobra. What does that mean? Cobra is in his late twenties. Fact of the matter is: We don't know. But If Dante is in his late 30's in DMC4 as stated, that means so would Vergil and that's viable enough to have a kid at say 17 or 18 rather then 11 or 12. ._.